SEO for flash site tipps, tricks

programming flash
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I made site http://bresco.cz cca a half year ago.
This is full flash site and a load text from external txt file.
I tried to find this site e.g. at Google, Yahoo, … - I did not found the site.
I entrede some keywords, but I heard the Google ignore it.
Have you any tipp how can I optimize the search result for my flash site?

Thanks

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http://www.kirupa.com/web/search_optimize.htm

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Thanks for link :wink:

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I recently took a class on SEO. We only spent a little time talking about Flash and SEO and what I could gather is that there’s no good solution for optimizing flash sites for search engines. I think this is part of the reason people don’t do full flash sites as much anymore.

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Its true - flash sites cannot get ranks in search engines like html pages can. However, google does find content within swfs. I found this great article on some tricks you can use, thanks to macromedia, to better optimize your swfs. Though, its not a sure solution. And didn’t know you could do this, but you can search for swf specific content in google:

“my search term” filetype:SWF

its all covered here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=454163&rl=1

also, there are some other tricks, like creating html foot nav below your main swf on the index page, as well as adding some description copy on the index page below your flash site.

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Thanks for link creatify.
Pity is, that we cannot prevent users of search engine to use this filetype:swf.
Question is if this searching works if you load the text from external source in swf e.f. from TXT. I think not.

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Thats a great point - I do most everything via xml, and have been researching that a bit.

There’s this new(er) google feature: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

I don’t know too much about it yet, but some marketing friends of mine are utilizing this heavily. We’re in the process of testing some XML site maps, that pull-in xml content that is used in some of our flash sites - we’re just playing with this now, but think we can definitely boost our placement this way, on google anyhow.

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Sounds good :slight_smile:
Is the xml nested inside the seeked site - flash site?

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The xml is all external and gets loaded at run time. thats one thing I’m trying to find out with what google does find in swfs - when the spiders or bots hit the swf, does it find / pull the xml. I don’t see how it can as there isn’t a flash player on the server of course. But it it could find the link in an swf - does it spider out to that xml file?

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ok thank for explanation